Device for applying liquids to animals



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DEVICE FOR ARPLYING L I UIDs TO ANIuAps Filed June 22. 1927 Joseph J. figZe plying devices.

Patented Apr. 23, 1929.

' UNITED STATES JOSEPH M. KYLE, OF GREENE, IOWA.

DEVICE FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS T0 ANIMALS.

Application filed. June 22,

My invention relates to improvements in devices for applying liquids to animals, and the object of my improvement isto furnish a device of this class constructed and adapted for this service to different species of animals or to those of different sizes, and for automatically and continuously maintaining a supply of a liquid for this purpose which is medicinal or insecticidal in character for application to the skin of the animal by rubbing contacts.

This object I have accomplished by the means which'are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whiohFig. 1 is a side elevation of my improved device, with portions broken away, and Fig. 2 is an en larged detail fragmentary longitudinal section of flexibly connected elements both of which incorporate liquid supplying rubbing devices of the character mentioned.

While I have shown one specific type of my invention as employed for the above purposes, yet it is to be understood that modifications may be made therein without departing from my invention.

The numeral 1 denotes a cast metal baseplate having a number of slo-pingly divergent sockets 2 integral therewith and arranged thereon regularly, in this case being a. set of four in two divergent pairs of like liquid sup- The lower parts of these de- I vices 3 are mounted in said sockets, and the upper parts are rigidly connected and sup ported at places below their upper ends by means of horizontal connecting bars 6 which r are thus arranged to cross each other at the center of the contrivance. On the under face of either one or both of these connecting bars 6 is secured an elongated pad of felt or the like absorptive fibrous material 13. One of said bars may have a vertical aperture 9,

v I which at its lower end meets said pad.13 below. A removable cover can or other container 10 may be mounted upon the intersect ing or crossing parts of the bars 6 to contain a quantity of oil or other insecticide of a liquid nature. A textile wick 11 maybe placed in said can to pass through a lateral slot and thence downwardly through a tubular conduit or casing 12 to and through the aperture;

9, the lower end of the wick being so contacting with the pad 13 asto convey the liquid thereto. This impregnates the pad with the liquid by capillary attraction keeping the 1927. Serial at. 200,838. I

pad wetted as long as a supply of the liquid remains in the can 10.

The ends of the cross-bars 6 may be forl-zed .to embrace the outwardly inclined devices 3 and be secured thereto by bolts 8 Also metal vbraces 7 may be used to strengthen said structure connected across from one device 3 to the other and also secured thereto by the same bolts 8.

As the devices 3& are all alike, but one will be described. Each device is preferably made up of elongated wooden bars 16, 17 and 18, the middle bar 17 being wider than the bars 16 and 18 wihch are relatively thin strips medially longitudinally grooved at 2% along their inner faces to provide passages for-a wick 22. The thicker middle bar -17 has a number of transverse slots 23, so that the wick 22 may be woven therethrough in a looped manner to alternately be 011 opposite sides of the bar 17in the oppositely placed longitudinal passages or grooves 24.

The numeral lei denotes a can or container for a liquid disinfectant or oil and is provided with a removable cover 19. This can is mounted alongside the inner longitudinal face of the inner strip 18. at or near its top and clamped thereon by a band 15. The strip 18 near the top has a transverse slot 20 alined with the uppermost slot 23 of the middle bar 17 to communicate therewith. The said wick 22'is carried from the said slot 28 through saidslot 20 and thence through another alined slot in the side wall of'the'can 14; and to depend within the liquid contents of the can.

Another similarly constructed device a to that of the said device 3 is positioned at a right angle to the top part of the outer face of each inclined device 8 in end contact there with," and connected hingedly thereto by means of a flexible leather or other hinging device 5 which will permit play of the device 1- in all directions upwardly or laterally except downwardly. This device while like the said device 8, omits one facing'strip, being mder face alongitudinal groove or passage 30 alined with and communicating with the uppermost transverse slot 23 of the dev1ce -3.to receive a wick 21 also traversing said composed of an upper strip 26 having on its llO notes a longitudinal pad of porous fibrous material like the said pad 13 and secured along the under side of the bar 27 with an interspace to permit the looped abutting parts of the Wick 21 to be seated in this interspace 29 in Contact with said pad, to im pregnate the latter with liquid from said can.

The inclined devices 3 should he separated from each other sutliciently. to allow pigs or small animals to enter therebetween to rub their sides on the devices 3 which are soaked with the liquid from the wick 22, or to rub their backs uponthe first-mentioned pad 13 also soaked by liquid but which is derived from the can 10. Cattle or large animals may rub their necks'and sides against the hinged devices l to receive on their skins oil or an insecticidal liquid therefrom or from said pads 28. As arranged in a plurality of said devices 3 and l, itwill be seen that several animals may use the contrivance simultaneously. v

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: p

1. A device of the character described, comprising in combination, a plurality of stand ards disposed about a central space, arms flexibly connected to the upper ends of said standards, and wicking'applied to both the standards and the arms to conduct a liquid thereto from a supply by capillary attraction.

A device of the character deseribed,oo1nprising in combination, a plurality of hollow standards arranged in pairs about acentral open space, apertured connecting meansibetween the standaros, hollowedarms mounted hingedly upon the upper parts of the standards to project outwardly and swingingupwardly, pads mounted upon theu-nder faces otbo-th said arms and said connecting means,

and wiciring in the hollows of said standards and arms, and the aperture in said connecting means contacting with and supplying a liquid to all said pads to keep them moistened along their lower surfaces for medicated rubbing purposes tor the use of animals passing thereunder and contacting therewith.

in testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

Josnrn L KYLE.- 

